Freshwater ecosystems provide goods and services of critical importance to human
societies, yet they are among the most heavily altered ecosystems with an overproportional …

▪ Abstract We review the major conceptual developments that have occurred over the last 50
years concerning the factors that influence insect biodiversity in streams and examine how …

Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters is designed to serve as a
textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and as a reference source for …

Perturbations in ecosystems consist of a sequence of 2 events: the disturbance, marked by
the application of the disturbing forces, and the response shown by the biota to the damage …

The influence of spatial processes on diversity and community dynamics is generally
recognized in ecology and also applied to conservation projects involving forest and …

Information about the relative biodiversity value of different waterbody types is a vital pre-
requisite for many strategic conservation goals. In practice, however, exceptionally few inter …

1. The structure of lotic macroinvertebrate communities may be strongly influenced by land‐
use practices within catchments. However, the relative magnitude of influence on the …

Droughts are a major hazard to both natural and human-dominated environments and
those, especially of long duration and high intensity, can be highly damaging and leave long …

Agricultural land uses can impact stream ecosystems by reducing suitable habitat, altering
flows, and increasing inputs of diffuse pollutants including fine inorganic sediment (< 2 mm) …

Tributary confluences are sites along a main channel where, because of the introduction of
water and (or) sediment, the water volume, bed sediment character, and water quality of the …